Nuclear power is so controversial; an engineer working on the Bruce Nuclear plant gives his point of view.

If your price doesn't reflect the true cost of your product, then there's no such thing as a free market.

It's a job even too tough for robots.

The technology turns the problem of nuclear waste into a source of safe nuclear energy.

Can a rare metal travel without a passport?

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.

This is, in fact, one of the things that e-bikes are really good at. Another dumb move.

I slice and dice some recent posts on technology

A look at some recent posts on our sister site that might interest TreeHuggers.

And put away your phone if you are on vacation.

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.

A look at our favorite posts from our sister site.

A really interesting housing project and a look back at Canadian Thanksgiving

and really, are Christmas lights screwing up your Wi-Fi?

And more blaming the millennials, robots and boomers and kitchens are exhuasting.

Why are our cities being designed around the needs of the trucks instead of vice versa?

and lessons in management from Renaissance Florence

And dancing robots!

also: recycling in crisis, how we will live in 100 years.

And a self-driving chair, a computer in your phone and learning to listen.

and the last job on earth.

A review of posts about aging baby boomers on the Mother Nature Network.

These coolest of sea creatures know what they're doing.

Why does this not surprise me?

Over the course of three months, previously clean mussels picked up a slew of contaminants from the waters of Puget Sound.

Tangled in fishing line with things looking grim, the story of Frito's rescue is inspiring all around.

Scientists hope the technology that filmed it can make fishing more sustainable.

Nestle and Tesco are the latest members of a worldwide movement against abandoned fishing nets.

Scientists argue over whether some animals have the brains for suffering.

A new study used DNA testing to reveal shark meat being sold under generic fish names.

It takes the controversial stance that more fish doesn't necessarily mean better fish.

George Monbiot, who is touring his new book Heat, spoke in Vancouver last week. It was riveting, inspirational, and depressing all at once. Ecoshock, an environmental internet radio station, will be posting a recording of Monbiot's speech. Ecoshock is

The Guardian columnist and environmental thinker George Monbiot usually manages to provoke a strong debate in our comments sections. Some time ago, our post on his new book Heat raised a fierce exchange of views about the impacts of flying, meanwhile his

The 2007 Be The Change Conference is fast approaching and has an amazing line up of speakers to inspire you with the theme "The Sky's the Limit". For the fourth year in a row the BTC conference brings together world leaders in sustainability and social

The Be The Change conference last week was chock-a-block full of fascinating speakers, enlightening information and inspiring actions. So far we've shared George Monbiot and Richard Reed's presentations and Drew Dellinger's poetry. We're just sorry we

In his erudite analysis of the global warming issue, Don Blankenship of Massey Coal expressed his opinion about the future of polar bears:

The debate over the true ecological sustainability of biofuels, the effects on global food prices, and their oft-heard claims of carbon-neutrality has been played out on TreeHugger in great detail. Adding a new

In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George

Image credit: HowStuffWorks Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine - Oil and Water? George Monbiot is undoubtedly no stranger to controversy - my post about his climate change book, Heat, drew 81 comments, while his well publicized opposition to

EvanEco: Carnival of the Green 172 by Don Bosch "Got milk? Grab a glass of the white stuff and a chocolate chip cookie, and join me for some green bloggy goodness..."Guardian Ethical Living: Ethical Superstore and Natural Collection merge into giant

George Monbiot told us that flying is dying; London artist Richard DeDomenici tells us that a return transatlantic flight is equivalent in CO2 and pollution output to driving a car 30 miles a day for a year. So the artist/humorist has

Since the Viet Nam war, Canadians (and some Americans) have been sewing Canadian flag patches on their backpacks when they travel to distinguish themselves from their neighbours. But they will be ripping them off soon, as the country becomes an

It is the battle of the M&Ms; vs the L&Ls; the Munk debate in Toronto about the statement "Climate change is mankind's defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response" with Bjorn Lomberg and Nigel Lawson duking it out

The Guardian's George Monbiot talks about climate deniers, junk science, and the need for nuclear.

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.

It would be hard to find a cooler looking vacation home than one of these cabins...

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?

Fortunately, that's not the only change in their building regulations.

Mandatory solar panels are not the biggest deal here.

I am sorry, they are a dumb idea, and the data prove it.